May's Mysteries: The Secret of Dragonville Remastered

I just refunded the game and sent those few lines to the support: "This game says "remastered" in its title, but in fact it's just reworked for consoles and should not have been re-released on pc. No resize option -> tiny window on a big screen Some puzzles are unplayable (guess it's bad optimization for faster cpus)" Don't buy, even on sale.

REVISED REVIEW: I initially thumbed this game up because it was problematic, but it's great to see Professor Layton style games under a different IP, and on PC. But it's really an bad port. If this was the devs only game on steam, I'd probably give them the slack, but they have 4 games on steam. There's really no excuse for it to be in this poor of shape. I badly want to change this back to a thumbs up, but that's entirely up to the devs. Below is mostly the same I had to say when I had thumbed up the game.... I haven't gotten very far, and already it's problematic. It seems to be a bad PC port sadly. I'm thumbing it up because it's a great game concept, but if you play it on PC, you are playing a broken experience. And on Steam Deck it's even more broken, but still playable if you don't mind all the cut scenes being broken. It starts with no resolution or full screen options. It is one single size. There's a Windows shortcut to make it full screen, I believe alt + enter? It would be nice to at least say that, but there should be basic video options. When you go to leave, there's no menu option to close it, just standard Windows ways. The second puzzle is a rhythm puzzle. I…

The music almost sounds like a sped up version of Professor Layton and the Diabolical box - puzzle 3. The game plays similarly to the Professor Layton games. The graphics look very similar in style as well. The puzzle variety is enjoyable and the skips are useful for puzzles that may be too difficult for a person to solve. There are some bugs but it doesn't seem as though the bugs will prevent you from completing the game yet. They are mainly just glitchy mechanics, like when dragging/ rotating a tangram shape that is overlapping another, both will start moving. Some puzzles are hard to get the game to register as complete, like the 2 boards over the water to get to the monument puzzle. I had to do the correct solution over 3 times before it was detected as correct. This led me to waste a lot of time trying other things in between the attempts (Basically the game makes you feel like you have the solution wrong if its not perfectly lined up).

A not too shabby Professor Layton knockoff.

https://youtu.be/_Vx_QtM0_1w Despite a fresher take on the original many core flaws and stumbles still show through.

An ok game at best. The puzzles range from quite easy to ridiculously challenging. I dont even know how someone would be able to get through this whole thing without a guide. I'd recommend it if you ever find it on sale, but don't expect much of it.